Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. — John Steinbeck

OK. The suggestions from the nominations thread were fed into the Library of Congress’s Super Duper Biblioputer and this is what came out:

Lee Greenwood will headline a Fourth of July ceremony at Disney World in which 1,000 legal immigrants will be sworn in as citizens.

God Bless, The USA.

The press release quoted Greenwood: “I feel honored and privileged to be part of this event because these immigrants obeyed our laws and played by the rules to meet the requirements for citizenship.”

God bless, Lee Greenwood.

And God bless those legal immigrants. They went through the paperwork. They studied hard. Many had to learn a new language. They showed a commitment to a nation that most of us take for granted.

I’ll bet they turn out to be good citizens too.

For those of you wondering “How the heck is Geezer going to turn this into a post about himself?”…
I met Lee Greenwood in 1969 when he was the lead singer for a group called The Mod Squad. They played at the Mint hotel in Las Vegas when I was a Disc Jockey at a local radio station. He and the band came out to the studio and recorded name Jingles for each of the DJ’s. I still have a tape of them singing my name, acapella.
So I got that going for me.Don Surber – God bless immigration

This is the jeep trail along the Middle Fork of the Swan River, which is to the right of my SUV in most of these pictures. It’s another 100-year-old abandoned mining road, of which Colorado has a zillion.

Here we are ascending through the alpine forest. At the moment, all I can see is sky and treetops. I hate that.

Other than the lame algebra idea, I’m pretty much game for whatever. Compos emailed me and said he’d like to re-read that classic: I’m Joe’s Rebellious Colon. And speaking of classics, I’ve failed multiple times at Walden, The Sound and the Fury, and Ulysses. Maybe with the support of fake internet friends, I’d even have luck with those.

“Windows were smashed and stones thrown at the stations, and there was traffic chaos as motorists queued to buy fuel.”Iranians were given only two hours’ notice of the move that limits private drivers to 100 litres of fuel a month. “

Does this mean Ahmadinejad is the Iranian Jimmy Carter? Because that’s pretty freakin’ awesome.

This one was not as deep as yesterday, but fun because of the adjacent waterfall. There were also some big rocks in the water to avoid, and a steep rocky bank on the far side, so it wasn’t quite as simple as it looks.

Here’s me driving back to pick up my photographer (Mrs. Michael). The far bank is rockier than you can see at this distance: